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HOW TO BALANCE THE 4 ELEMENTS OF ACADEMIC WRITING

Now there is no single technique by which this can be achieved. Rather, there seem to be four elements whose relationships with one another need to be balanced:
1. the writer,
2. the object of the analysis or discussion (the content),
3. the reader, and
4. the formal properties of the language itself.

Not everybody will balance these elements in quite the same way; and this is as it should be, since there is no such thing as a uniform, ideal academic English. Getting the balance right will depend partly on how you, the writer, respond in particular circumstances and partly on those traditions of expression and scholarship which grow up within certain disciplines, schools of thought within disciplines, and within particular college and university departments.

These four elements of the writing situation – writer, subject matter, reader and the forms of language – are reflected in four main characteristics of a piece of written language itself. They must all be handled together in the act of writing. Their competing claims to attention are resolved in the choice of one word in preference to
another, in the structuring of a sentence, in the placing of an emphasisin the paragraph, in the confidence with which you argue your case,and so on.

The four characteristics are these:
A.
Your own point of view must emerge, not as a mere opinion but as a justified judgement.

B.
You need to treat your subject matter as comprehensively and as precisely as the essay topic demands. From the range of information and ideas found in your reading you need to create a unified view. You must read carefully and do your best to make your language clarify the information and ideas you find in your books.

C
You must present your work in the appropriate fashion for academic readers. This means that you will have to learn certain conventions of academic writing which are, at times, quite different from those you may be used to, or those youwill find in non-academic contexts.

D.
Finally, the text of your essay needs to forge a coherent unity from the many diverse elements of language and thought that go to make it. It is in many of the details of your text that your purpose is realised. An essay is not merely a vehicle for ideas, but is itself (whatever the discipline) a piece of literature.